Medicare Advantage profits could be under pressure in 2024, analysts say
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Medicare Advantage profits will likely be stable in 2023 but could face pressure
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Healthcare Costs
Privately Insured People with Depression and Anxiety Face High Out-of-Pocket Costs
(By Hope Schwartz, Nirmita Panchal, Gary Claxton, and Cynthia Cox for The Kaiser Family Foundation published: Jun 23, 2023) Millions
Read MoreCMS: Private insurance spending to increase in 2023, 2024; slow in 2025 onward
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS is projecting a 7.7 percent increase in private health insurance spending in
Read MoreKFF Survey Shows Complexity, Red Tape, Denials, Confusion Rivals Affordability as a Problem for Insured Consumers, With Some Saying It Caused Them to Go Without or Delay Care
(Contact Craig Palosky for the Kaiser Family Foundation published June 15, 2023) Most (58%) people with health insurance say they
Read MoreCommercial insurance enrollees pay less for ultra-expensive drugs than Medicare Part D members: Study
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Medicare Part D beneficiaries that don’t receive low-income subsidies spend 2.5 times more
Read MoreThis Panel Will Decide Whose Medicine to Make Affordable. Its Choice Will Be Tricky
(By Markian Hawryluk for KFF Health News) Catherine Reitzel’s multiple sclerosis medication costs nearly $100,000 a year. Kris Garcia relies
Read MoreHe Returned to the US for His Daughter’s Wedding. He Left With a $42,000 Hospital Bill
(By Sarah Jane Tribble for KFF Health News) Last June, Jay Comfort flew to the United States from his home
Read More6 limitations with payers’ price transparency data, per Elevance Health researchers
(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Payers have been required to post pricing information online for covered items and
Read MoreStandardized Plans in the Health Care Marketplace: Changing Requirements
(By Karen Pollitz, Justin Lo, and Rayna Wallace for Kaiser Family Foundation Published: May 08, 2023) For the 2023 coverage
Read More‘Patients are not hot potatoes’: How the fight over dialysis coverage is putting kidney failure patients at risk
(By Carrie Arnold for STAT) As soon as she heard the Supreme Court decision, LaVarne Burton began to worry. As
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